End of Silence

I ended up having to reformat and reinstall The Wife’s hard drive. I tried the recovery console (chkdsk, fixboot, and fixmbr) and I tried the repair option that’s part of xp setup. None of these fixed the “disk read error”. It was a good thing I had just installed everything the week before. Four hours [...]

So, I finally got all of the computers set up correctly on Saturday afternoon. We each had our own PC and could share files, the printer and Internet access. The Boy’s was connected via an 802.11b wireless card. I was all impressed with myself. My wonderful networked home lasted 24 hours.
We left all of the [...]

Don’t make any jokes about drunk pilots on America West flight or you’ll find yourself booted off the plane. I don’t know what recourse this woman has, but I’ll avoid flying their fascist airline from now on. That’s utterly ridiculous.
I broke down and bought a bunch of wireless networking stuff from Netgear. I’ll let you [...]

It’s still raining like crazy here. If it goes on much longer, I might dig up those ark plans.
I spent most of the weekend holed up in our home office installing WinXP Pro to my machine and setting up The Wife with her own machine. My parents gave us several hand-me-down PCs when they [...]

Found this op-ed about Dubya today. I’m all about the Bush bashing, but this guy seems to forget that a lot of the culture that allowed the Worldcoms and Enrons of the world to do their badness happened during the Clinton administration. Of course, he had to go the for the cheap shots on Texas [...]